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Commuter-rail conductors back on secret strike? They're not announcing trains again
By adamg on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 8:07pm
Anna B reports on the past week at the Ruggles commuter-rail stop, at which not a single train's destination was announced, forcing commuters to play commuter-rail roulette:
... This Friday, fed up, I asked a conductor who was collecting fares about why no one announced what line the train was. He told me, "We did but you probably couldn't hear us going by 30 mph." I call bullshit. Not a single conductor was in a doorway as it pulled up to Ruggles. ...
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You won't have Dan Grabauskas to kick around anymore
She's blaming Grabauskas for last week.
Also, if employees are secretly compromising service on something like whether people get stuck on the wrong commuter rail (it's unclear to me that they are doing that) and then lying about it besides, I'd simply fire them.
Unions are a good thing in principle, but secretly sabotaging the system is unacceptable.
Has anyone else experienced what this blogger reported?
I don't ride the train
I don't ride the train everyday in the summer, but they definitely aren't doing that as far as I've noticed. The conductor's explanation sounds about right. It's not always audible because they are shouting over the sound of the train, OL trains, etc.
Destination displays?
MBTA commuter trains don't display destination signs because... they never have, and that's just the way it is and has always been? Just like their 150-year-old fare collection methods? (I'm just guessing here. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The next batch of commuter
The next batch of commuter rail cars will have destination signs.
I have no idea why the last batch did not.
I've experienced this too...
the commuter rail love their passive-aggressive secret strikes - especially on the WR commuter rail line...
They deny service like this periodically when they are displeased about something in their job
Yikes. This is bad because
Yikes. This is bad because the windows on half the commuter rail trains are all so dirty/scratched up/etc that you can barely see out of them. And if you miss your stop and have to get off at the next one, the likelihood of an a train going back to your stop in a reasonable time is very low. The CR is a mess.
I've seen it
I've been using the Ruggles stop for the last few weeks and this is totally true. I had to ask several times to make sure I didn't get on the wrong friggin' train.